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- DNA testing in NH solves murder in Alaska
- While civil libertarians have objected to states widening of DNA sampling (in many states, all convicted of felonies and misdemeanors are sampled and some states sample all arrestees), its just such laws that led to the solving of the 1994 murder of a college student in Alaska, The Boston Globe...
- Blog posts 2007-05-14
- TX celebrates 1000th DNA-assisted crime solution
- fTexas is celebrating its 1000th cold case solved through its DNA database, The Dallas News says. Case number 1,000 is a sexual assault in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. The Combined DNA Index System is a nationwide system used to match the DNA of convicted criminals with evidence from...
- Blog posts 2007-03-09
- MD State Police make improvements in DNA collection
- Back in 2004, an audit revealed 28 serious problems with DNA analysis at the Maryland State Police. A follow-up audit released in February found that substantial improvements have been made but there is still serious work to do. The police still have a backlog of more than 25,100 inmate...
- Blog posts 2007-03-02
- VT votes to allow convicts to request DNA
- The Vermont Senate will consider allowing prisoners to request testing of DNA evidence, the Rutland Herald reports. In a unanimous preliminary vote, the Senate Judiciary Committee approved the bill, based in part on the work of the Innocence Project, based in New York City, on Wednesday. The committee is...
- Blog posts 2007-02-22
- VA bill would allow police use of improper DNA samples
- A Virginia state senate committee unanimously approved a bill that would allow DNA evidence improperly gathered to be given to police, as long as it was obtained in good faith, The Richmond Times Dispatch reports. The measure has already passed the state House. The measure came up as...
- Blog posts 2007-02-20
- AZ moves to collect DNA samples from all arrestees
- The federal government isnt alone in moving towards a policy of DNA fingerprinting everyone arrested. In Arizona, a Senate committee voted 5-1 to require anyone taken to a police station to submit to DNA testing, The Arizona Daily Star reports. Thats a broad expansion from current laws that require DNA...
- Blog posts 2007-02-06
- Justice expanding DNA collection to include illegal immigrants
- A little-noticed amendment to the 2006 renewal of the Violence Against Women Act authorized the Justice Department to massively expand DNA collection - and the department is finalizing rules to do just that, The New York Times reports. Under the new rules federal law enforcement will collect DNA from...
- Blog posts 2007-02-05
- MO Dems want DNA testing on arrest
- In Missouri, state representatives want to expand the states DNA collection to include people arrested but not yet convicted of felonies and sex crimes, Missouri News Tribune reports. Rep. John Burnett, a Kansas City Democrat, wants police to be able to close cases sooner by giving them more...
- Blog posts 2007-01-23
- KY supreme court clears DNA testing for Death Row inmate
- In Kentucky, Brian Keith Moore is fighting to get off of Death Row. He won a big victory recently when the state supreme court decided to allow DNA testing of evidence in his conviction for the murder of Virgil Harris. But, the Louisville Courier-Journal reports, he still has a long...
- Blog posts 2006-12-28
- DNA review of old evidence in VA moving slowly
- Last year two men convicted of rapes were freed from Virginia prisons after a DNA review of evidence - blood or semen - found that they were innocent. They were freed because a now-dead forensic examiner saved the physical evidence in 31 cases. As a result, Gov. Mark Warner ordered...
- Blog posts 2006-12-27
- Thousands of felons' DNA missing from VA database
- In Virginia thousands of felons failed to submit their DNA to the states database as required by law, partly because state and local agencies failed to require the samples, The Washington Post reports. The discovery has led to a massive review of the DNA database but the current estimates...
- Blog posts 2006-12-21
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- ETech 2009 Preview
- Next month, Silicon Valley welcomes ETech, the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference. In it's 8th year now, the hands-on confab brings together thinkers, doers and "alpha geeks" to demo and discuss disruptive technologies and business models. The overarching theme for the four-day event that'll kick-off March 9th is how the way...
- Blog posts 2009-02-25
- News to know: Windows 7; Oracle OpenWorld; Adobe CS4; Search 2.0
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary Jo Foley: Windows Live team confirms Win7 to replace subsystems with services Ed Bott: How to set up a new PC in one easy session ...
- Blog posts 2008-09-23
- Big Brother Getting Bigger Part 1: USA
- Eek, from Slashdot today: The FBI has confirmed to Popular Mechanics that it's not only adding palm prints to its criminal records, but preparing to balloon its repository of photos, which an agency official says 'could be the basis for our facial recognition.' It's all part of a new...
- Blog posts 2008-06-30
- China's cyber-militia behind U.S. blackouts?
- China's cyber-militia behind U.S. blackouts?FUD?While Chinese owned companies (and being Communist, the government owns those companies) has been responsible for some things, no doubts there as the pet food and tooth paste can confirm, shouldn't a proper distinction be confirmed before empty blaming?How do we know the guilty hackers aren't...
- Discussion threads 2008-05-30
- Why social software won't dethrone the incumbents
- It's not often I find myself fundamentally disagreeing with Sam Lawrence. He's a smart guy with a great marketing head. But on this post he's over-reaching in my opinion. His basic argument says this: The big IT vendors aren’t taking social software seriously. They can’t. Not even if they...
- Blog posts 2008-04-30
- FBI takes biometrics database proposal to U.K.
- FBI takes biometrics database proposal to U.K.Great for US tourismEveryone will flock there.RE: FBI takes biometrics database proposal to U.K.http://www.securenet.bc.ca/NewsReleases/Press%20Releases%202008/jan142008pr.htm'nuff saidRE: FBI takes biometrics: More BS!What can't be done in the U.S. Due to that pesky constitution and stupid Americans and their freedoms can be done in Britain, out of...
- Discussion threads 2008-01-16
- FBI building massive biometric database
- In The Simpsons movie, Marge, Bart and Lisa's conversations are tracked by the NSA. It's not that they've been targeted as specific threats to the EPA's plans to wipe Springfield off the map but because the NSA listens to every American's conversation. That scenario -- which...
- Blog posts 2007-12-24
- The online health revolution and your DNA: It's a trust issue
- The online health revolution and your DNA: It's a trust issueCan this setup be somehow reversed to improve the trust aspect?I am reminded of the notion of everyone having their own "smart card" or other personal storage device, possibly with its own processing power. Instead of yet another large centralized...
- Discussion threads 2007-11-19
- Today's Debate: Tipping point for electronic medical records?
- Today's Debate: Tipping point for electronic medical records?You *WILL* be assimilated[i]So, is resistance now futile?[/i]Well, in the UK next door it looks like everyone, transient visitors included, will have to have DNA in the Home Office's database.Expect the third round of the PATRIOT Act to include this if it isn't...
- Discussion threads 2007-09-07
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